Year | Labor | Native Americans | Big business | Reform movements | the West | African-Americans | Asian-Americans |
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1869 | Knights of Labor founded | ||||||
1872 | Credit Mobilier scandal | ||||||
1876 | Little Bighorn | National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (aka National League) organized | |||||
1877 | great railroad strike | Nez Perce | Munn v. Illinois | end of Reconstruction | |||
1879 | Carlisle School founded | Henry George, Progress and Poverty | |||||
1881 | Helen Hunt Jackson, A Century of Dishonor | ||||||
1882 | Chinese Exclusion Act | ||||||
1886 | Haymarket Strike; AFL founded | Wabash v. Illinois | Geronimo surrenders to US Army | ||||
1887 |
Interstate Commerce Act | Dawes Act | |||||
1888 | Bellamy, Looking Backward | ||||||
1890 | Wounded Knee | Sherman Anti-Trust Act | |||||
1892 | Homestead Strike | Populists propose Omaha platform | |||||
1893 | Turner presents Frontier Thesis | ||||||
1894 | Pullman Strike | Coxey's Army marches on DC; Congress passes a 2% income tax that applies only to Americans earning more than $4000 | |||||
1895 | US v. E.C. Knight; in re Debs | in Pollock v Farmers Trust Co., the Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the previous year's income tax is a direct tax and therefore unconconstitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent (though not as famous as his dissent in Plessy the next year) complains that the court has turned provisions "originally designed to protect the slave property [into] privileges and immunities never contemplated by the founders." | Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address; Ida Wells-Barnett, A Red Record | ||||
1896 | William Jennings Bryan's presidential campaign unites Populists and Democrats; "cross of gold" speech | Plessy v Ferguson | |||||
1899 | Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class | ||||||
1903 | DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk | ||||||
1905 | Lochner v NY; reversed by Muller v Oregon (1908) | ||||||
1906 | Niagara Movement | ||||||
1907 | Gentlemen's Agreement | ||||||
1909 | NAACP founded |
key: labor; Native Americans; big business; reform movement; the West; African-Americans; Asian-Americans
1869 Knights of Labor founded
1872 Credit Mobilier scandal
1876 Little Bighorn; National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (aka today's National League) organized
1877 Nez Perce; end of Reconstruction; Munn v Illinois; Great Railroad Strike
1879 Carlisle School founded; Henry George, Progress and Poverty
1881 Jackson, A Century of Dishonor
1882 Chinese Exclusion Act
1886 Haymarket Strike; AFL founded; Wabash v Illinois; Geronimo surrenders to US army
1887 Dawes Act; Interstate Commerce Act
1888 Bellamy, Looking Backward
1890 Wounded Knee; Sherman Anti-Trust Act
1892 Homestead Strike; Populists propose Omaha platform
1893 Turner presents frontier thesis
1894 Pullman Strike; Coxey's Army marches on DC; Congress passes a 2% income tax that applies only to Americans earning more than $4000
1895 US v EC Knight; Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address; Wells-Barnett, A Red Record; in re Debs; in Pollock v. Farmers Trust Co., Supreme Court rules 5-4 that the previous year's income tax is a direct tax and therefore unconstitutional. Justice John Marshall Harlan's dissent (his dissent in Plessy the next year is more famous) complains that the court has turned provisions "originally designed to protect the slave property [into] privileges and immunities never contemplated by the founders."
1896 Bryan's campaign; "cross of gold" speech; Plessy v Ferguson
1899 Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class
1903 DuBois, Souls of Black Folk
1905 Lochner v NY
1906 Niagara Movement
1907 Gentlemen's Agreement
1909 NAACP